Feeding Your Puppy

At Sheepadoodles Of Falconwood we pride ourselves on making sure all our dogs are fed premium foods and have all the nutrition their bodies need to be healthy and strong.  

We like to feed both wet and dry foods so that they enjoy variety but also so that the transition for the pups is easier.  We know some people prefer to feed wet and others dry.  To avoid sudden changes and upset tummies we feed both and you can make the decision of what works for your family.  

After lots and lots of research we choose Advance as our dry choice and Lyka as our wet.  These foods are of the highest quality.  Here we like to feed Lyka for dinner and we allow our dogs to free fee on Advance all throughout the day.  

We buy our Advance instore from from Petbarn (hot tip - ask them to pricematch).  If you need to order online PetCircle have great prices and fast delivery. 

We love that Lyka comes fresh to our door prepackaged for each of the dogs.  It's human grade meats and the dogs go crazy for it!  If you want to try Lyka use our special link https://lyka.com.au/join/FALCONWOODFAMILY for a huge 50% off your first order and 30% off your second.  You will be asked to fill in a questionaire to help Lyka send the right size packs.  You pup will weigh approx 6kg at 8 weeks and will grow approx 1kg a week for the first few months, we recommend the half size portion packs to start.  This is too much food for one meal in the beginning but you can divide into quarters at the beginning and increase from there.

We don't recommend changing your pups diet at all for the first 4 weeks of them coming home.  Stress of leaving mum and going to a new home and family causes gastric upsets enough without adding the stress of a diet change.  Use the kibble as a training reward and no other treats for now.  Our contract states that you must feed these foods for the first 4 weeks, beyond that your free to change.  Do your research on the best foods for Large Breed Dogs.  We do all we can to give them the best start and its up to you to continue that.

When your pup comes home he or she will be sleeping through the night and mostly toilet trained.   Sudden change of diet will throw this all out the window as they will likely get diarrhea and will need the toilet all hours of the night.